UK critical systems at increased risk from ‘digital divide’ created by AI threats

Over the next two years, a growing divide will emerge between organizations that can keep pace with AI-enabled threats and those that fall behind – exposing them to greater risk and intensifying the overall threat to the UK’s digital infrastructure, the country’s cyber chiefs warned on May 7.

A new report outlines how artificial intelligence will impact the cyber threat from now to 2027, highlighting how AI will almost certainly continue to make elements of cyber intrusion operations more effective and efficient.

It warns that, by 2027, AI-enabled tools are set to enhance threat actors’ ability to exploit known vulnerabilities, adding that whilst the time between the disclosure and exploitation has already shrunk to days, AI will almost certainly reduce this further, posing a challenge for network defenders.

Read more at UK National Cyber Security Centre